its almost as bad as the Story of Alien (thank you Janis who took me to see it, in the Salon cinema, Glasgow) its not instant but it is terminal eventually... who wants to wait to find out.... just walk onto the landscape and decompress your Suit, and your blood will boil so hard red steam comes out your ears... and your eyes hit the inside of your Visor, like paint ball pellets...
Do what God did... Make a life-form out of nowhere... from spare DNA from a thousand spices of Species, to do your living for you... and then just sit back and watch... terribly exciting and mostly wonderful... better than Sex with an Angel...
it is Sex manufactured to make Angels... that is Why whoever invented Sex was onto a winner and endless, meaningless fornication (one of my favourite words these days)
the Point I am trying to make is dont bother sending People ANYWHERE, just make a "thing" more capable of surviving... than us, no point we only ever just get pictures back... do we need a finger to press the shutter...
send a true friend made of Circuits who is closer than a Brother, to make the experience for you, dont even do that: send a sentinel A.I to wait and watch for the signs of... George Knapp... God/Life/intelligence/criminality/bestiality/Fireworks/miracles and generally incredible things beyond all understanding...
INSTEAD:
Just send in multiple Capsules the entire history of the human Race in indestructible Hard Drives with a "how to use Manual" every Book in every Language the entire History of Movies and the Evidence of all recorded Wars... (dont forget the Beatles) let the Superior Beings see what a race of wild Bugs we were... and find great entertainment in it...
Make somebody smile even a million years in the Future... Dont go to Mars... it is a Suicide Mission that is fated and doomed to destruction...
but dont Worry buy the time they want to go the Show is called off coz Elon is Broke, like some of his Rockets and nobody is coming back just to give you an SD card.... Ahem.. think about it...
do do it FEED THE HUNGRY...